wasnt this based on a true event??

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dragonstephen-1 — 11 years ago(May 11, 2014 05:25 AM)

wasn't this based on the incident in the isle of white in the U.K?
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scoup — 11 years ago(July 27, 2014 01:14 PM)

It's based on the American Presidential elections

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pacificboy — 11 years ago(January 26, 2015 04:16 PM)

A. It's the Isle of
Wight
B. No. People can't make other people's heads explode with their minds.
"You liked
Rashomon
."
"That's not how
I
remember it."

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sim7396 — 10 years ago(September 06, 2015 08:06 PM)

There was a medication given to pregnant women in the late 1950s, called thalidomide, which also had nasty side effects. But that's where the similarities end. Thalidomide (Google it) was then prescribed to treat morning sickness and nausea, but was later found to create deformed limbs in newborns, unlike the "invisible" effects of the movie's ephemerol.
It was an awful tragedy. Thalidomide has now come back: it is thought that it can successfully treat certain types of cancer.